[fatjonny]

You could write your own way of doing it or use an existing flow control library. There are lots. :)

https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules#wiki-async-flow

For a specific example, look at async.parallel: https://github.com/caolan/async

[agscala]

I wish I knew about this kind of thing last time I hacked on node.js... I would have had such better & cleaner code. This clears up a lot. Thanks